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Friday, August 12, 2011

I didn't really follow this, and thus didn't vote on anything. I did look at the results, and thought I would at least figure out which ones I had read. Their rules on series is a little odd, and so there's cases where I had read one or two of a group.

For the listing below, those in red are ones that I've read, those in blue are series where I've read some, while those in black are unread.

1

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy

J.R.R. Tolkien

2

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Douglas Adams

3

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

4

The Dune Chronicles

Frank Herbert

5

A Song Of Ice And Fire Series

George R. R. Martin

6

1984

George Orwell

7

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

8

The Foundation Trilogy

Isaac Asimov

9

Brave New World

Aldous Huxle

10

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

11

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

12

The Wheel Of Time Series

Robert Jordan

13

Animal Farm

George Orwell

14

Neuromancer

William Gibson

15

Watchmen

Alan Moore

16

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

17

Stranger In A Strange Land

Robert Heinlein

18

The Kingkiller Chronicles

Patrick Rothfuss

19

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

20

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

21

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

22

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

23

The Dark Tower Series

Stephen King

24

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

25

The Stand

Stephen King

26

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

27

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

28

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

29

The Sandman Series

Neil Gaiman

30

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

31

Starship Troopers

Robert Heinlein

32

Watership Down

Richard Adams

33

Dragonflight

Anne McCaffre

34

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Robert Heinlein

35

A Canticle For Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller

36

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

37

20000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

38

Flowers For Algernon

Daniel Keys Moran

39

The War Of The Worlds

H.G. Wells

40

The Chronicles Of Amber

Roger Zelaznz

41

The Belgariad

David Eddings

42

The Mists Of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

43

The Mistborn Series

Brandon Sanderson

44

Ringworld

Larry Niven

45

The Left Hand Of Darkness

Ursula K. LeGuin

46

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

47

The Once And Future King

T.H. White

48

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

49

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke

50

Contact

Carl Sagan

51

The Hyperion Cantos

Dan Simmons

52

Stardust

Neil Gaiman

53

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

54

World War Z

Max Brooks

55

The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle

56

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

57

Small Gods

Terry Pratchett

58

The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant

Stephen R. Donaldson

59

The Vorkosigan Saga

Lois McMaster Bujold

60

Going Postal

Terry Pratchett

61

The Mote In God's Eye

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

62

The Sword Of Truth

Terry Goodkind

63

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

64

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

65

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

66

The Riftwar Saga

Raymond E. Feist

67

The Shannara Trilogy

TerryBrooks

68

The Conan The Barbarian Series

R.E. Howard

69

The Farseer Trilogy

Robin Hobb

70

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

71

The Way Of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

72

A Journey To The Center Of The Earth

Jules Verne

73

The Legend Of Drizzt Series

R.A. Salvatore

74

Old Man's War

John Scalzi

75

The Diamond Age

Neil Stephenson

76

Rendezvous With Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

77

The Kushiel's Legacy Series

Jacqueline Carey

78

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. LeGuin

79

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

80

Wicked

Gregory Maguire

81

The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series

Steven Erikson

82

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

83

The Culture Series

Iain M. Banks

84

The Crystal Cave

Mary Stewart

85

Anathem

Neal Stephenson

86

The Codex Alera Series

Jim Butcher

87

The Book Of The New Sun

Gene Wolfe

88

The Thrawn Trilogy

Timothy Zahn

89

The Outlander Series

Diana Gabaldan

90

The Elric Saga

Michael Moorcock

91

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

92

Sunshine

Robin McKinlez

93

A Fire Upon The Deep

Vernor Vinge

94

The Caves Of Steel

Isaac Asimov

95

The Mars Trilogy

Kim Stanley Robinson

96

Lucifer's Hammer

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

97

Doomsday Book

Connie Willis

98

Perdido Street Station

China Mieville

99

The Xanth Series

Piers Anthony

100

The Space Trilogy

C.S. Lewis

Some general notes/comments:

"The Thrawn Triolgy" by Timothy Zahn? A nice addition to Lucas' Star Wars universe (and one of the last things I paid attention to, particulary after the disappointing prequels) but they aren't great literature.

Sigh...outside of the first couple, why include Anthony's Xanth series?

Is Robin McKinley's "Sunshine" held in that high of regard?

Wow, lot more Neil Gaiman books on the list than I would have expected.